At this point, the vendor smiled amiably and said, "Little miss, a dollar definitely won't work, but if you really want to eat, I can sell you one for a dollar twenty!" With that, he pointed to a smaller fish nearby. "This one's a bit smaller, nobody wants it for a dollar fifty, so I'll give it to you for a dollar twenty. Shall I throw it on the grill for you?"
Hu Jiping bit her lip in silence. She counted the money in her palm; she had only one yuan and ten cents in total.
Even though this was just an instinctive gesture, she knew very well that she had only this tiny bit of money.
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